Gain and plasmon dynamics in active negative-index metamaterials

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1950, 2011, Pages 3525-3550

  Wuestner, Sebastian ^a   Pusch, Andreas ^a   Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Hamm, Joachim M ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain; Maxwell Bloch equations; Metamaterials; Negative refractive index; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTONICS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BOUND ELECTRONS; DYE MOLECULE; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GAIN MEDIA; LIGHT WAVE; LOSS COMPENSATION; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATIONS; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE-INDEX; NONLINEAR SATURATION; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; RADIATIVE DAMPING; REAL PART; SPATIAL DISPERSION; THEORETICAL MODELS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80053006023     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0140     Document Type: Article

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